GESTURE
Searching lines, sustained gestures, mass gesture. Object study with multiple views. Still life may also be used to create spatial relationships within the whole.
Gesture and extended gesture
Gesture drawing helps you to understand your perceptual ability to se the "whole" all at once, even before we discover the parts. Gesture drawing helps you to then, consciously and quickly, attempt to organize parts in relation to the whole. Gesture drawing helps you to determine size and imbues a drawing with energy. It also helps you to be aware of the limits of the page and how things fit inside the frame.
Even before or with little understanding of the spatial mechanisms underlying linear perspective, you are able to resolve many of the complex spatial relationships by relying on intuitive gesture, and an application of guidelines (horizontal, vertical and diagonals) for comparative measure.
"Not until we experience a subject’s gestural expression do we really understand why (and how) each part serves to convey whatever visual or emotive meanings attract us to it in the first place. For no matter what else excites our interest some system of moving energies is always one of the attracting features". ("The Art of Responsive Drawing" by Nathan Goldstein)
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| Gesture, Fall 2014, Student: NA, Instructor: Linda vanderKolk | Gesture, Fall 2014, Student: NA, Instructor: Linda vanderKolk | Gesture, Fall 2014, Student: NA, Instructor: Linda vanderKolk | Gesture, Fall 2014, Student: NA, Instructor: Linda vanderKolk | Gesture, Fall 2014, Student: NA, Instructor: Linda vanderKolk |
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| Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 |
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| Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture, Spring 2010 | Gesture Drawings, Summer 2009, Student: Lorraine Delaney, Instructor: Linda Vanderkolk |
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| Expressive Horse, Summer 2009, charcoal, Student: Fallon Peters, Instructor: Linda Vanderkolk | Expressive Horse, Summer 2009, charcoal, Student: Lorraine Delaney, Instructor: Linda Vanderkolk | Expressive Horse, Summer 2009, charcoal, Student: Meredith Lawn, Instructor: Linda Vanderkolk | Fall 2009 | Gesture study foundations 113 coordinator: Grace O’Brien, 2005 , -- 270938 |
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| Gesture study, foundations 113 coordinator: Grace O’Brien, 2005 , --271386 | Gesture, study foundations 113 coordinator: Grace O’Brien, 2005 , --271386 | Gesture, Spring 2003, Instructor: Suzy Irwin | Gesture, Fall 2003 | Gesture, Fall 2003 |
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| Gesture, Fall 2003, Instructor: Steve Nyktas | Gesture, Margaret Mask, Spring 2003, Instructor: Suzy Irwin | Gesture, Spring 2003 | Gesture
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Gesture, Mallori Silcox, Fall 2003, Instructor: Victoria Stetler |
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| Gesture, Fall 2003, Instructor: Steve Nyktas |